An 1808 Bond and Articles of Agreement between Luke Prouty and his “natural mother,” Susanna Prouty, both of Salem, Washington County, in the upstate Hudson..... Read More about 1808 Washington County, New York Manuscript Bond and Articles of Agreement between a Son and His...
Facsimile reprints of four state or national Colored Conventions convened by African Americans in the mid-19th century. Each has a modern bibliographical note and/or historical..... Read More about Afro-American History Series, Collection 5: Convention Pamphlets [facsimile reprints of four...
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Archive of 21 loose photographs showing highway automobile accidents in Westchester County, New York as documented by New York State Troopers out of Troop K.... Read More about Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State
Archive of notices of assessment issued by The Mutual Relief Society of Rochester, N.Y. Founded in 1879, the society was what was termed an “assessment..... Read More about Mutual Relief Society of Rochester, N.Y. Archive
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York....
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Nearly five-year social diary and calling/visiting book kept by Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller of Glenco [Glenco Mills], New York. Rockefeller meticulously tracked—typically in one-line entries—the..... Read More about 1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book
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History of the all-black 15th New York Infantry Regiment (369th U.S. Infantry), known as “Harlem’s Hell Fighters.” The book was written by one of its..... Read More about From Harlem to the Rhine. The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. [Signed
The life of a forester and a lumberjack told from the perspective of a woman, a rare perspective according to the author. Illustrated with plates... Read More about Calked Shoes. Life in Adirondack Lumber Camps. [Signed by the Author
With 190 identified miniature portrait albumen photographs within, this Eastman Business College friendship album was kept by J. W. Hertzog of Exeter Station [now Lorane]... Read More about 1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original...
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Taken less then a month before Grant’s death, this cabinet card shows former president Ulysses S. Grant, seated on porch at center. he is surrounded..... Read More about Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet...
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In... Read More about Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883
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Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More about C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York
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Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a.... Read More about 1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His...
Description of a visit to the Cooperstown, New York home of American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851). The author explored Cooperstown and its environs, which... Read More about The Home of Cooper and the Haunts of Leatherstocking
Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men’s Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885–1910. These two separate..... Read More about 1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts...
A letter from Presbyterian, impoverished preacher Oren Brown whose pecuniary situation forces him to cancel his subscription to the Biblical Repertory of Philadelphia. Brown has... Read More about 1840 Autograph Letter Signed by East Groveland, New York preacher Oren Brown
Collection of 44 letters by Sarah Frances “Sallie” Lotta to her boyfriend, later fiancée, James S. “Jim” Crossland, Jr. Sallie lives in New Rochelle, New..... Read More about A collection of 44 handwritten letters by Sallie F. Lotta of New York, 1918, and one additional...
The Arts and Crafts utopian art community Byrdcliffe was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York. The principal founders were Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and his... Read More about Archive: Byrdcliffe Art Colony Records, c.1869–Early 20th Century
Poetical friendship album kept by Martha Shippee in Jefferson County, New York, 1838–1841, before her 1844 marriage to Isaac Farley and removal to Charlemont, Massachusetts... Read More about 1838–1841 Friendship Album. Kept by Martha Shippee in Jefferson County, New York an Charlemont,...
Most nineteenth century trade cards do not bear an imprint. This one does, in this instance, advertising a resort house in popular Lake George, New... Read More about Trade Card:] 1860s to 1870s Rockwell Bros. Proprietors. Lake House…Lake George, New York
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire..... Read More about Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...
A two-panel comic is seen on the back cover of Hudson River Wire Works brochure for a new clothes line style aimed at the woman... Read More about New Patent White Wire Clothes Line. $10,000 Reward for a Superior Article [caption title
